• megane-kun@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    First OS: Windows 3.1 running on top of MS-DOS 6.2

    First Linux distro: Ubuntu (forgot the version, but it was circa 2018).

    If I’d count an OS/Linux distro that I’ve used even if not in a machine I own, it’d be Linux Mint of circa 2006.

  • TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Technically it was Kali on a VM. But I had absolutely no clue what I was doing (I was 9 years old) so I gave up.

    Then I tried Ubuntu to get past my parental controls. Same thing.

    Eventually had success with Mint 5 years later. Never looked back.

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago
    • Commodore 64 (kernal)
    • Amiga OS
    • MS-DOS 3.2, 5.0
    • Windows 3.1
    • Slackware Linux
    • Windows NT 4
    • RedHat Linux
    • Windows XP
    • Ubuntu Linux
    • Windows 7
    • Windows 10
    • Rasbian
    • PopOS

    Roughly in order of appearance. Personal devices only. I used many more for work.

  • ColossalCoder@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    For operating systems in general, my first computer ran Windows 95.

    For my first Linux distro, that’d be Debian 12 Bookworm.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    my first was windows for workgroups 3.11 with msdos 6.22 back in 1994; later upgraded to windows 95.

    my first linux as mandrake linux (aka mandriva) in 2002 on kernel 2. i use linux fulltime now and no longer own a windows computer.

  • madjo@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    First operating system was DOS 4 or 5, I think. On big 5.25” floppy disks on an 8088. Unless we’re counting whatever was running on a commodore vic20.

    My first Linux distribution was Red hat Linux, somewhere around 1997, 1998 and I had a really tough time getting it installed.

    I also once had a trial version of os/2 warp. Which was fun but pointless.

    • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      There’s a few things from dos that have a permanent place my soul. A:/KEEN.exe, idkfa, iddqd and gorillas.

  • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Comodore 64 os in the late 80’s then msdos, win 3.1, etc. First Linux distro i believe was either slackware or debian.

  • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    First OS was C64’s Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS, if that even counts as an OS, the next was Amiga 500’s AmigaOS

    First Linux distro was Fedora

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    DOS/Win3.1 I was pretty young. It was far back enough that it was still common to find Apple II’s in my grade-school classrooms off to the side for when we had downtime. I regret that I was just a little too young to experience the Commodore 64 craze.

  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Windows 1998 on a Pentium2. First linux distro was Ubuntu, uh…8.04 I think ? That was much later.